Faculty by Research Specialization
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is known for its innovative research and exemplary scholarship. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of their respective fields, covering a wide variety of geographic, temporal, and thematic fields of study. The areas of specialization listed here are by no means an exhaustive list of our scholastic interests. Rather, they highlight the diverse and often overlapping ideas and approaches we explore within our teaching and research.
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Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States
Charles W Hedrick Jr.
- Title
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History
Cynthia Polecritti
- Title
- Professor Emerita
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages
Elaine A. Sullivan
- Title
- History Undergraduate Program Director
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Egyptology; Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments; Ancient World / Classics; History
Borderlands and Transnationalism
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Noriko Aso
- Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual
David Brundage
- Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Shelly Chan
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Social and cultural history of modern China; China in transnational and global history; diaspora theory; geographies of history; postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.
Alan S Christy
- Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Grace Peña Delgado
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
- Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)
Immigration--Mexican, Asian
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Nationalism
Chinese in Mexico
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Edward H. Kehler
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Aims McGuinness
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Latin America with a focus on Panama, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. U.S. empire. California Gold Rush. History of socialist politics with a focus on Wisconsin and the Read more ...
Gregory E. O′Malley
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Maya K. Peterson
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Environmental History, History, Water, Colonialism, European Studies, History of Science, Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Studies, Environmental Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Russian History
European History of the 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental History
Central Asia
Bruce A Thompson
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
- Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
- Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...
Colonialism and Empire
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Noriko Aso
- Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual
Benjamin Breen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
- Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...
David Brundage
- Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Shelly Chan
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Social and cultural history of modern China; China in transnational and global history; diaspora theory; geographies of history; postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.
Alan S Christy
- Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Muriam Haleh Davis
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism
Jennifer L. Derr
- Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
María Elena Díaz
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
- Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Gail Hershatter
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
- Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China
Edward H. Kehler
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Matthew Lasar
- Title
- Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
- Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
Amy Lonetree
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History
Marc Matera
- Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Aims McGuinness
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Latin America with a focus on Panama, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. U.S. empire. California Gold Rush. History of socialist politics with a focus on Wisconsin and the Read more ...
Matt O′Hara
- Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism
Gregory E. O′Malley
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Maya K. Peterson
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Environmental History, History, Water, Colonialism, European Studies, History of Science, Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Studies, Environmental Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Russian History
European History of the 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental History
Central Asia
Eric Porter
- Title
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Juned M. Shaikh
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, History, World History, India and Indian Studies, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Development Studies, and Intellectual History.
Marilyn J Westerkamp
- Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
- Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...
Critical Race and Indigeneity
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Muriam Haleh Davis
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism
Grace Peña Delgado
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
- Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)
Immigration--Mexican, Asian
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Nationalism
Chinese in Mexico
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States
María Elena Díaz
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
- Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Catherine A Jones
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation
Civil War Era
History of Children and Childhood
American South
Matthew Lasar
- Title
- Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
- Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
Amy Lonetree
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History
Marc Matera
- Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Aims McGuinness
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Latin America with a focus on Panama, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. U.S. empire. California Gold Rush. History of socialist politics with a focus on Wisconsin and the Read more ...
Gregory E. O′Malley
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Eric Porter
- Title
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
- Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...
Early Modern World
Benjamin Breen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
- Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...
Alan S Christy
- Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States
Minghui Hu
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies
Edward H. Kehler
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Matt O′Hara
- Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism
Gregory E. O′Malley
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Marilyn J Westerkamp
- Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Gender and Sexuality
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Noriko Aso
- Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual
Shelly Chan
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Social and cultural history of modern China; China in transnational and global history; diaspora theory; geographies of history; postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.
Grace Peña Delgado
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
- Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)
Immigration--Mexican, Asian
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Nationalism
Chinese in Mexico
Gail Hershatter
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
- Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China
Catherine A Jones
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation
Civil War Era
History of Children and Childhood
American South
Matthew Lasar
- Title
- Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
- Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
Marc Matera
- Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Cynthia Polecritti
- Title
- Professor Emerita
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages
Marilyn J Westerkamp
- Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
- Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...
Labor and Social Movements
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
David Brundage
- Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Shelly Chan
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Social and cultural history of modern China; China in transnational and global history; diaspora theory; geographies of history; postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Gail Hershatter
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
- Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China
Matthew Lasar
- Title
- Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
- Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
Marc Matera
- Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Aims McGuinness
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Latin America with a focus on Panama, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. U.S. empire. California Gold Rush. History of socialist politics with a focus on Wisconsin and the Read more ...
Eric Porter
- Title
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Juned M. Shaikh
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, History, World History, India and Indian Studies, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Development Studies, and Intellectual History.
Alice S. Yang
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
- Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...
Religion and Secularism
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Matt O′Hara
- Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism
Cynthia Polecritti
- Title
- Professor Emerita
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages
Bruce A Thompson
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
- Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.
Marilyn J Westerkamp
- Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Gender Studies, US History, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Science, Technology, and Environment
David Henry Anthony III
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
- Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...
Benjamin Breen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
- Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...
Muriam Haleh Davis
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism
Jennifer L. Derr
- Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany
Minghui Hu
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies
Matthew Lasar
- Title
- Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
- Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
Maya K. Peterson
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Environmental History, History, Water, Colonialism, European Studies, History of Science, Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Studies, Environmental Studies, Asian Studies
- Summary of Expertise
Russian History
European History of the 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental History
Central Asia
Bruce A Thompson
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
- Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.